The healing touchThe second annual "Angel Faces" retreat for burn survivors and those with facial deformities was held at the Oakbridge Camp in Ramona in the second week of last month.

LOGAN JENKINS For Slomo, life on boardwalk is never in fast lane
"This," says Slomo, "is the waiting station for heaven." We're out on the Pacific Beach boardwalk, leaning on the sandy wall. Everyone cruising by stares sidelong at Slomo, the skating savant in his signature blue tank top, Bermuda shorts and backward cap.

Wanted: Rafael PadillaAs a public service, The San Diego Union-Tribune publishes information on suspects being sought by local law enforcement authorities.

Small quake hits Salton Sea areaSALTON CITY – A small earthquake struck in the Salton Sea area late Saturday night, but there were no reports of damage or injury, said an official with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.

OBITUARYFred Joerger; model maker and DisneyFred Joerger, one of Disneyland's original model makers who crafted miniature versions of the park's Sleeping Beauty Castle and other attractions, has died. He was 91.

OBITUARYDr. Margot S. Kruskall; an expert on blood banks; 56Dr. Margot S. Kruskall, a Harvard hematologist and an expert on blood banks who was an early advocate for patients' donations of their own blood before surgery, a practice propelled by the spread of AIDS in the 1980s, died Aug. 27 at her home in Dover, Mass.

OBITUARYJacob Marinsky; isolated promethium ions; 87Jacob A. Marinsky, a chemist who helped discover promethium, No. 61 in the periodic table and one of several elements isolated during work on the Manhattan Project, died Sept. 1 at his home in Buffalo, N.Y.